Country profiles

Based on our National Endowment for Democracy (NED) research, we have compiled individual country reports on how governments have voted and acted in international forums regarding human rights and democratic norms. Why? Because protecting and defending human rights and democracy doesn’t stop at a country’s borders.

Country profiles

Based on our National Endowment for Democracy (NED) research, we have compiled individual country reports on how governments have voted and acted in international forums regarding human rights and democratic norms. Why? Because protecting and defending human rights and democracy doesn’t stop at a country’s borders.

The Andean country, a proponent of free trade but often a reluctant diplomatic leader, has taken a surprising outsized role in furthering economic integration between Latin America and the Asia Pacific region.

Sources confirm to Global Americans that Kimberly Breier, a veteran member of the U.S. intelligence community, will be named Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs and that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will travel to Latin America in the coming weeks.

By the time 2018 draws to a close, three quarters of Latin Americans will have elected a new president. Though often taken for granted, the commissions responsible for ensuring free and fair elections will play a critical role in regional politics this year.

Crime and violence in the Northern Triangle is a regional issue that requires a collective response to the structural factors driving it: weak state capacity, corruption within police forces and the judiciary, and insufficient data. Deporting refugees back to the region doesn’t help.

Ecuador still has a long way to go to recover from a polarizing ten years under populist Rafael Correa, but the first eight months of Lenín Moreno’s presidency have re-confirmed the importance of succession and regularly held elections.

Peru’s progress today toward equitable social and democratic development and effective democratic governance is hindered not by powerful interest groups, domestic or foreign, but by the weakness of state capacity and institutions.

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